Articles from Pathfinder Magazine
Scrip (sometimes called chit) is a term for any substitute for legal tender and is often a form of credit – so reads the Wikipedia definition for those items that served as currency in those portions of the U.S. where the bucks were scarce.
The attached news column tells a scrip story from the Great Depression – the sort of story that was probably most common on the old frontier.
The Era of Bartering (Pathfinder Magazine, 1934) Read More »
This is a portion of a longer article about American children and their collective sufferings during the Great Depression that can be read here. The column attached pertains to a White House conference and the sorry state of American schools in 1940.
From Amazon: Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher
American Schools During the Great Depression (Pathfinder Magazine, 1940) Read More »
This is a portion of a longer article about American children and their collective sufferings during the Great Depression that can be read here. The column attached pertains to a White House conference and the sorry state of American schools in 1940.
From Amazon: Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher
American Schools During the Great Depression (Pathfinder Magazine, 1940) Read More »
This is a portion of a longer article about American children and their collective sufferings during the Great Depression that can be read here. The column attached pertains to a White House conference and the sorry state of American schools in 1940.
From Amazon: Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher
American Schools During the Great Depression (Pathfinder Magazine, 1940) Read More »
The Volksbund early identified itself with Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Furthermore, its members at times have indulged themselves in parades, Nazi salutes and loud ‘heils’. For these reasons the organization has drawn much criticism for ‘un-American’ activities.
Volksbund, USA (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937) Read More »
A semi-flattering profile of Benito Mussolini that explains his difficult childhood and the periodic beatings he suffered at the hands of his Marxist father. No references are made to his favorite pastimes – beating up editors and closing newspapers:
Significantly, his god is Nietzsche, the German philosopher who wrote: ‘Might makes right.’
You can read about his violent death here…
Fascist Rome fell to the Allies in June of 1944, click here to read about it…
Who Was Mussolini? (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937) Read More »
When the U.S. Supreme Court gave their decision concerning the 1940 appeal of a lower court’s verdict to convict three African-Americans for murder, civil libertarians in Washington held their collective breath wondering how Justice Hugo Black approached the case. Black, confirmed in 1937 as FDR’s first court appointee, admitted to having once been made a ‘life member’ of the Ku Klux Klan. This column was one of any number of other articles from that era that reported on the Alabaman’s explanation behind his Klan associations:
I did join the Klan… I later resigned. I never rejoined.
The Klansman on the Supreme Court (Pathfinder Magazine, 1940) Read More »
On came the foe, rushing foe,
As down they fell by hundreds.
‘Twas bravery held our men;
They knew they were outnumbered.
‘Hundreds’ and ‘outnumbered’; Tennyson could hardly have done better than that. But even Tennyson would not have tried to rhyme ‘steam and ‘submarine’, as the author of the following succeded in doing:
Brave boys, put on steam;
Be ready at the guns, boys;
‘Tis a German submarine.
etc., etc.
The Bad War Poets (Pathfinder Magazine, 1920) Read More »
Heaven knows that the average American had it tough during 1931. The Great Depression was coming down hard on them – but the harshest blow came from our neighbor to the North who rejected our manner of spelling!
American Spelling Rejected by Canadians (Pathfinder Magazine, 1931) Read More »
The foreign correspondent for Pathfinder Magazine filed this brief report about the goings-on in Germany on June 30, 1930, when the last Allied regiments had completed their occupation duties mandated under the Treaty of Versailles and withdrew to their own borders:
For the most part the German population waited patiently until the last uniformed Frenchman had entrained and then they raised the German flags, [and] began to sing ‘Deutschland Ueber Alles’…
President Hindenburg issued a proclamation saying in part:
‘After long years of hardships and waiting, the demand of all Germans was today fulfilled. Loyalty to her fatherland, patient perseverance and common sacrifices have restored to the occupied territory the highest possession of every people – freedom.’
Allied Occupation of Germany Ends (The Pathfinder, 1930) Read More »
